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In article <Jan-1404962357150001@news.magmacom.com>,
Jan Steinman <Jan@Bytesmiths.com> wrote:
>BTW: I just accidentally typed "1000 factorial" when I meant "100
>factorial." It took several seconds to print several window's worth of
>digits, but I suspect that most of that time was spent rendering the
>digits onto the screen, NOT calculating them.

Indeed.  Some Scheme interpreter I used to use (it may have been
MIT Scheme version 6 or 7) wrote a prompt after finishing the
computation, and before writing the actual result.  Normally, you
couldn't notice a gap between the two outputs, but when evaluating
(factorial 1000), the prompt would be displayed almost immediately,
but you'd have to wait a while until several screens of digits
scrolled past ...

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